AWS CEO to Step Down

[jameshart]

The autoscaling group will automatically schedule a new CEO to replace this one. No action is required on your part.

[jimt1234]

ICE: Insufficient CEO Error

[sudhirj]

Matt says there will naturally be changes, which is usually CEO-speak for layoffs.

I don't think anyone is happy that AWS is missing the bus on AI.

[andremedeiros]

Amazon is great at a lot of things, but AI and Machine Learning aren't it. From what I saw when I worked there, they don't have the talent to produce their own models (which is, I think, what we all expected to see), but the surprising thing is that they haven't partnered yet.

[belter]

All these Sales people are extremely dangerous for AWS.

Adam Selipsky -> Was an Harvard MBA

Andy Jassy -> Joined as Marketing manager as Harvard MBA

Matt Garman -> Was first product manager of EC2 but also a business MBA

Jeff Bezos for all his slightly goofy style, graduated from Princeton with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In the meanwhile people like James Hamilton, Werner Vogels, or others that could look like their heirs are very, very invisible.

My prediction is that Jeff Bezos will be back within 2 to 3 years if not sooner.

[giantg2]

Are they missing the bus on AI?

Hasn't Meta committed to becoming an AI leader and releasing their models for free? Users will need to run those models somewhere.

[adrianco]

Not a big surprise. Garman has been working up to this for a while. It will be interesting to see how the VPs reshuffle and whether anyone else who thought they might get the CEO job leaves in a huff…

[flakiness]

Wasn't aware that both old and new execs have Sales / Marketing background vs. Product / Engineering.

This is a stereotype bad signal but AWS has demonstrated otherwise (besides missing the AI boat, whose endgame is not clear yet.)

[captainoats]

Garman was one of the first PMs at AWS. He was sent over to lead Sales/Marketing relatively recently to get demand side experience presumably in preparation to take over as CEO.

[flybarrel]

Not sure what you are talking about. Garman was in product since joined AWS till 2020, then to Sales / marketing.

[gumby]

John Chambers at Cisco was a notable exception.

But he was notable not just for the company performance but because he was an exception.

[tadeegan]

Great to read these two C levels jerking each other off. Amazon culture makes me want to puke

[hughesjj]

I still miss cbell

[ilrwbwrkhv]

All sales guys running a technical division. End in sight?